Thanks for the positive news! I really loved OSA at the time, and I’ve used it extensively.
But the last two things I wanted to automate failed utterly. Photos still has something of a dictionary, but you can do little more than control a slide show. No way to do usable searches (like “any photo taken in such-and-such an area in December”). And Mainstage has no dictionary at all (and _that_ would be an absolutely wonderful app to control). Logic Pro has a dictionary but it allows little more than closing a window. ince then I’ve sort-of given up on it. But I’ll at least try again if I want to automate something. Jack > On 22 Aug 2025, at 18:33, gl...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > > > >> On Aug 22, 2025, at 2:54 AM, Jack Jansen via Pythonmac-SIG >> <pythonmac-sig@python.org> wrote: >> >> I think your out of luck: >> >> https://appscript.sourceforge.io/status.html >> > > While appscript is not seeing new features, it's more "done" than > "unmaintained". hhas seems to do new builds for new operating systems and > updates for new versions of Python. I'm using it quite successfully on python > 3.13 and Sequoia, 13 years after this message went up, and 10 years after > (allegedly) "Apple eliminated its Mac Automation department". > > I wouldn't base a major new business on it or anything but it always bugs me > to see folks scared away from this perfectly usable automation technology > with vague fearmongering about its future, 15 years into that "future" being > declared dead and gone. > >> Also, note that AppleScript itself (or actually I should probably say OSA) >> is as good as dead, unfortunately. >> >> >> Apple doesn’t actively support it anymore, and new programs don’t seem to >> get any OSA support… > > > What do you mean by "actively support it"? The "Privacy & Security -> > Automation" access control integration with the new security model is only a > few years old at this point. New applications like Shortcuts have OSA > support. 3rd party apps like Acorn and OmniFocus have good scripting > integration, and first-party stuff like Pages/Numbers/Xcode also have good > integration that are hard to access in other ways. > > For what it works for, OSA is fine. People have been saying it's dead for > like 15 years now, but it still works great and has much nicer, finer-grained > security tools than it used to. It's probably not the future of any big new > automation push. That will be Shortcuts, and, ugh, "Apple Intelligence". But > I strongly suspect that once OpenAI goes bust and Siri's ChatGPT integration > stops working, we'll still have AppleScript. > >>> On 20 Aug 2025, at 10:07, Thia Clay <clay0...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> is the Python library appscript still developing? if so, how can I build >>> the wheel with GCC in Windows? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pythonmac-SIG mailing list -- pythonmac-sig@python.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to pythonmac-sig-le...@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/pythonmac-sig.python.org >>> Member address: jack.jan...@cwi.nl >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pythonmac-SIG mailing list -- pythonmac-sig@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to pythonmac-sig-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/pythonmac-sig.python.org >> Member address: gl...@twistedmatrix.com > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG mailing list -- pythonmac-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to pythonmac-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/pythonmac-sig.python.org Member address: arch...@mail-archive.com
